Pigeon v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably Daniel McDougal v. Edmond McKay (1915), Lena Pigeon v. William Buck No 199 Elias Roberts E I (1915)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Duff v. Keaton · Maharry v. Eatman · Dewalt v. Cline
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We hold that John Pigeon and Mate Pigeon, his wife, are the persons to whom, on the death of the allottee, this estate passed in equal moieties, and that plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, have no interest therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDougal v. McKay““Many titles to lands on the eastern side of this state have been acquired on the strength of this decision, and to such an extent that the same has become a rule of property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillum v. Anglin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.